Sources from Mangalagiri stated that the TDP minister Nara Lokesh's associates are collecting election funds or rather resorting to extorting money from local builders and realtors. Reportedly they are calling up the realtors and asking them to contribute to the campaign fund and any calls from the TDP office are causing panic among them and they are unable to fend them off out of fear of the ruling party.
Meanwhile with the surrounding areas of Mangalagiri coming under the Amaravati capital zone, several real estate companies have started construction of many commercial buildings and residential projects on either side of the National Highway there. Furthermore among them prominent construction companies like Jayabheri, IJM, Lingamaneni Ramakrishna, Sahithi, Undavalli are building huge residential apartments there.
Personal not just extorting money, they have also gone to the extent of levying a rule that small realtors from nearby villages should bear the entire cost of campaigning in their village. Furthermore citing an example about this, Atmakur village abutting the National highway, has the villages of Chinakakani, Kaza villages in its limits. Presently local construction companies which are building projects in those areas are supposed to pay the voters through their pockets.
